‘Creature Commandos’: First Wave of DC Studios Casting Includes Indira Varma, David Harbour, Alan Tudyk, and Frank Grillo
Creature Commandos is the first project that will come out of James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Studios, a seven-episode animated series that is currently in production. Now, the official cast has been confirmed.
Per Collider, the series will include Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr., Zoe Chao as Nina Mazursky, Alan Tudyk as Dr. Phosphorus, David Harbour as Eric Frankenstein, Indira Varma as the Bride, Sean Gunn as GI Robot and Weasel, and Maria Bakalova as Princess Ilana Rostovic. Steve Agee is returning as John Economos, and Viola Davis is expected to reprise the role of Amanda Waller too.
This is especially interesting, not only because it’s the first round of casting news from DC Studios, but because James Gunn and Peter Safran have previously said that the actors they hire are expected to play their respective characters across all media, from live-action to animation to video games.
And in addition to Grillo welcome David Harbour as Frankenstein, Indira Varma as the Bride, @AlanTudyk as Dr. Phosphorous, @MariaBakalova96 as Ilana Rostovic, @seangunn as GI Robot & Weasel, Zoe Chao as Nina Mazursky and @steveagee returning as John Economos. #CreatureCommandos https://t.co/Xcg4oTv45j
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) April 12, 2023
Creature Commandos is currently in production and targeting a 2024 release date on the recently-rebranded Max platform. It’s currently unknown when we will see any of these characters again once the series is done, but we expect that to happen at some point. We know that Davis is also going to appear in her own spin-off series Waller, carrying over from the previous DC regime. Both Creature Commandos and Waller are expected to debut before Superman: Legacy does on July 11, 2025 — it will serve as the proper introduction to the new DCU.
Plot details remain under wraps, but more will be revealed in time.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.